5 words
- Eglantine - another name for sweetbrier
- Embouchure - The mouth of a river
- Ersatz - Being an imitation or a substitute, usually an inferior one; artificial
- Gossamer - Something delicate, light, or flimsy
- Languor - Lack of physical or mental energy; listlessness
• 21 July 2012 • 220 notes
5 words
- Amaranthine - Eternally beautiful and unfading
- Ambrosial - Of or worthy of the gods
- Aubergine - a dark purple colour
- Cavalcade - A succession or series
- Chantepleure - Alternate singing and weeping
• 24 June 2012 • 136 notes
5 words-Ancient Greece
English words from Ancient Greece
- Acme - the highest point the acme of perfection
- Catharsis - a cleansing from guilt
- Kudos- glory
- Stasis - stoppage of flow
- Cosmos - world or universe
• 7 May 2012 • 48 notes
5 words (psychology)
- psychache - Extreme psychological pain.
- severely gifted - Relating to a child with exceptional intelligence.
- precrimination -A recrimination made in advance of some expected event or outcome.
- pareidolia - The erroneous or fanciful perception of a pattern or meaning in something that is actually ambiguous or random.
- paraskevidekatriaphobia - Fear of Friday the 13th
• 18 March 2012 • 39 notes
5 words (psychology)
- Gamer shame - Feelings of embarrassment or guilt caused by an obsession with computer games.
- Sexsomnia - A sleep disorder in which a person engages in sexual behavior while asleep.
- Sleep-eater - A person who eats while asleep
- Stepford - Relating to a person who has an unthinking, conformist, and uncritical attitude.
- Topsight - An understanding, awareness, or view of the entirety or full scope of something.
• 13 March 2012 • 33 notes
5 words (psychology)
- defensive pessimism - A strategy that anticipates a negative outcome and then takes steps to avoid that outcome.
- cosmophobia - The strong and irrational fear that in the near future the earth will be destroyed by some cosmic event.
- attentional blink - The momentary lapse in awareness that occurs after a stimulus catches the brain’s attention.
- egosurfing - Using a search engine to locate and read pages, posts, articles, and other online content that mentions your name.
- halfalogue - One side of a two-person conversation.
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• 10 March 2012 • 51 notes
5 words (psychology)
- cinematherapy - A form of therapy or self-help that uses movies, particularly videos, as therapeutic tools.
- co-rumination - The extensive and repeated discussion, particularly among friends, of problems and negative feelings.
- egoboo - Recognition and praise for a task well done, particularly a task that is performed for free.
- disconfirmation bias - The tendency to accept supportive evidence of a belief uncritically, but to actively refute or discount evidence that challenges that belief.
- butler lie - A lie used to politely avoid or end an email, instant messaging, or telephone conversation.
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• 5 March 2012 • 95 notes